Most people of my generation (born in the 50s) are well aware that ex-vice president Al Gore is a walking joke with the functional intelligence of a slime mold. What is surprising is that in spite of this obvious handicap, Mr. Gore has managed to manipulate a significant portion of the world’s population into making him wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. I’m talking billions, with a “B”. Check out this site, for pages of very damaging evidence. You will notice that an interesting point on how the media consider the deaths of past glory starlets such as Anna Nicole Smith far more important than the corruption of the scientific process for profit is made.

Papers such as the Washington Post, not a tabloid known for evenhandedness in its reporting, reported in Gore’s scholarship abilities with a distinct tone of abashment in their prose. Here is what was said about the young Gore’s attempt at handling higher education’s strictures, “In his sophomore year at Harvard, Gore’s grades were lower than any semester recorded on Bush’s transcript from Yale. That was the year Gore’s classmates remember him spending a notable amount of time in the Dunster House basement lounge shooting pool, watching television, eating hamburgers and occasionally smoking marijuana. His grades temporarily reflected his mildly experimental mood, and alarmed his parents. He received one D, one C-minus, two C’s, two C-pluses and one B-minus, an effort that placed him in the lower fifth of the class for the second year in a row.”

The article goes on to point an accusatory finger at Gore’s ability to even understand the basics of how the ecosphere works, “For all of Gore’s later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man’s Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year. The self-proclaimed inventor of the Internet avoided all courses in mathematics and logic throughout college.”

Jay Leno had an interesting punch line with regard to politicians, “…is a highly trained liar. If you try it, you’ll die!” He was talking about infidelity and hookers, but when you’re dealing with most politicians, the two aren’t all that far apart. In the case of Al Gore and global warming, you have to wonder why so many people who are normally skeptical would swallow hook, line and sinker a story that has as much veracity as the “I invented the internet” fiction.